AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed on Wednesday that most major male facilities in the state are still experiencing worker stoppages and that facilities have switched to two meals a day as a result of the general strike and protest launched by incarcerated individuals on Monday.
The ADOC, in a statement released on Wednesday, said that “each facility’s operations are affected differently” and that security measures, such as control of movement, have been deployed “to maintain a secure environment” within the facilities.
ADOC facilities have maintained a holiday meal schedule since the beginning of the strike on Monday, wherein incarcerated individuals are only fed twice each day. Correctional facilities around the state are unable to provide full meal services without incarcerated labor, even if correctional staffing numbers were at full capacity….
Since the beginning of the strike, incarcerated individuals at ADOC facilities system-wide have alleged that the switch to two meals, which some have described as “bird feeding,” a starvation tactic used against protesting workers in prison, was in direct retaliation for the strike and peaceful protest.
“Once the work stoppages end, facilities will once again be able to provide regular meal service,” the spokesperson for the ADOC said in a statement on Wednesday. “ADOC is hopeful that regular meal service can be restored as soon as possible.””